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Baker's era took a lot from old horror movies, endearing them to a generation of kids, but also to adults who remembered them form their childhoods.
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I don't have fond memories of any horror films from my childhood...
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I think quite a few people have memories of horror films from childhood that have scarred them, ,ore than being thought of fondly.
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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Seeing some horror movies that scared me as a child, makes me laugh a little. Some of them are so cheesy.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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Baker's era took a lot from old horror movies, endearing them to a generation of kids, but also to adults who remembered them form their childhoods. I actually remembered being quite frightened by "The Stones of Blood" when I saw it as a child.
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Thete was a bit of Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and his Stone Tape in that one. Kneale would come across as grumpy as he got older. But seeing BBC lift your work constantly in Doctor Who might have played a part in that.
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The BEEB stole story ideas??!??!? Say it ain’t so!
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Fret not Quis. It only happens constantly.
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Phew!!!!! That’s a load off my mind!
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Apparently, the show Dickensian is largely lifted from some guy who lived in the 19th century! 
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What?! Fiction is based on reality????
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This is all a fiction. I will be waking up soon and say to my zlorbk “You won’t believe the dream I had!”
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, flittering round from place to place unaware that he was really a man. After waking up, he remained uncertain whether he had been a man dreaming of being a butterfly, or was a butterfly now dreaming of being a man.
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That name can be very difficult for non-Mandarin speakers to pronounce. The romanization is not all that intuitive.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, flittering round from place to place unaware that he was really a man. After waking up, he remained uncertain whether he had been a man dreaming of being a butterfly, or was a butterfly now dreaming of being a man. It didn't help that, as he pondered his uncertainty, he was caught in a large net. Was he a butterfly, caught by a collector, or was he a man, caught by a serial killer?
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Either way, he's probably not gonna make it.
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Makin' it, oo makin' it
I'm solid gold
I've got the goods
They stand when I walk
Through the neighborhoods
I'm makin' it
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more, Fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)
Makin' it
Hello uptown, goodbye poverty
The top of the ladder is waiting for me
I'm makin' it,
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)
Makin' it, makin' it
Listen everyone here
This coming year's gonna be my year
I'm as bad as they come
Number two to no one
I've got looks, I've got brains
And I'm breakin' these chains
Make some room now
Dig what you see
Success is mine
'Cause I've got the key
I'm makin' it
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There's a gay porn comic called The Keys, modeled on Charlie's Angels. It's about a trio of sex-crazed horny hot men, who go around "helping" closeted gay and bi men out themselves by seducing them and filming the sex...
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I have seen similar type comic parodies for Star Trek & Star Wars.
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Rule 34. If it exists, there is porn of it.
I see a lot of Disney-themed porn comics...
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"Existence precedes essence"" is the main slogan of existentialism, though it only applies to humans according to Jean-Paul Sartre.
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If essence preceded existence, would that mean that we could wish things into existence by imagining hard enough?
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The Great Darkness saga is considered essential Legion reading.
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If essence preceded existence, would that mean that we could wish things into existence by imagining hard enough? Nah. But normally when we do create something, we have the idea for the thing we are creating ahead of time. So, if we make a chair, we think about what kind of thing it is we are making ahead of time. And even in the natural world, we think of things as fitting into nice, neat kinds that we can talk about and learn about independently of the instances. So there are turtles, diamonds, and quarks, and knowing that something belongs to those categories takes us a long way in understanding the individual thing in question. Sartre's claim is that conscious beings are radically different than anything else in the world, in that we have the freedom to define ourselves. Or, sort of. Because we can never *really* give ourselves an essence. So our attempts to define ourselves are kind of futile. And our freedom just results in massive anxiety because we can never trust our future selves to abide by any choice we make. So as much as we want to think of ourselves as the heroic individual who stands up to the Nazis, we may suddenly choose to become a collaborator tomorrow.
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If essence preceded existence, would that mean that we could wish things into existence by imagining hard enough? Nah. But normally when we do create something, we have the idea for the thing we are creating ahead of time. So, if we make a chair, we think about what kind of thing it is we are making ahead of time. And even in the natural world, we think of things as fitting into nice, neat kinds that we can talk about and learn about independently of the instances. So there are turtles, diamonds, and quarks, and knowing that something belongs to those categories takes us a long way in understanding the individual thing in question. Sartre's claim is that conscious beings are radically different than anything else in the world, in that we have the freedom to define ourselves. Or, sort of. Because we can never *really* give ourselves an essence. So our attempts to define ourselves are kind of futile. And our freedom just results in massive anxiety because we can never trust our future selves to abide by any choice we make. So as much as we want to think of ourselves as the heroic individual who stands up to the Nazis, we may suddenly choose to become a collaborator tomorrow. That's why I try to live for the moment, and not look ahead or behind. Essence, shmessence.
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